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In recovery when I threw myself into poetry, I was drawn to poems that were certain of nothing, poems that embraced mystery instead of trying to resolve it.
Kaveh Akbar • What Can Ancient Spiritual Poetry Teach Us About Living?
Martyr! a book by Kaveh Akbar
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“Being able to say ‘this is who I am’ when everything else feels uncertain, flimsy, prone to dissolution, may be the greatest comfort we have. Is anything more seductive, more empowering?/ To be alive is to subject oneself to the reality of being permeable/ so, while I welcome the pleasure of those moments when I feel like myself, I don’t think I w
... See moreEloghosa Osunde • A Long Talk: conversation between Eloghosa Osunde & Joshua Segun-Lean.
I wanted to read a poem that had recently moved me. I had been trying to read it every night, as a prelude to dinner or a coda to dinner, but things kept getting in the way. The mood, for instance. It wasn’t a very poem-y poem, but it was a poem, and I guess it had that against it. Still, it was funny and affecting, and I saw it as a moral Trojan h... See more
Celine Nguyen • how to change your life, part 1: l.a. paul's transformative experience
“What were you before you met me?"
"I think I was drowning"
"And what are you now?"
"Water”
―Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous